The Bachelor of Social Work requires four years of full-time study (or equivalent part-time). Note that field work topics must be taken full-time.
Students can apply to transfer to the Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) – 4 years at the end of second year.
The course is offered by the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.
The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.
International applicants must satisfy English Language Proficiency requirements with an IELTS score of 7.0 overall and 7.0 in each band or equivalent.
The Bachelor of Social Work aims to:
On completion of this course students will be able to:
To qualify for the Bachelor of Social Work, a student must complete 144 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
Except with permission of the Dean (Education) the course must be completed within 10 consecutive years.
The award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University''s policy on Student Progress.
POLI1003 An Introduction to Democracy and Government (4.5 units)
PSYC1101 Psychology 1A (4.5 units)
SOAD1008 Introduction to Social Work (4.5 units)
SOCI1010 Sociology of Everyday Life (4.5 units)
HLTH1306 Contemporary Health Issues in Australia (4.5 units)
INDG1000 Indigenous Studies: An Introduction (4.5 units)
PSYC1108 The Psychology of Surviving and Thriving (4.5 units)
SOAD1014 Interpersonal Skills (4.5 units)
SOAD2007 Social Policy Practice (4.5 units)
SOAD2012 Decolonising Social Work (4.5 units)
SOAD2013 Groups and Communities (4.5 units)
SOAD2014 Social Work Theories (4.5 units)
DSRS1202 Disability Across the Life Course (4.5 units)
LLAW3xxx Human Service Law and Practice (4.5 units)
SOAD2010 Intersectionality and Social Work (4.5 units)
SOAD2011 Practicing Social Work (4.5 units)
SOAD3102 Field Education 1 (13.5 units)
SOAD4008 Professional Judgement and Decision Making (4.5 units)
SOAD3006 Research and Evaluation (4.5 units)
SOAD3013 Children & Families: Well-being and Protection (4.5 units)
SOAD3017 Identity, Self and Agency (4.5 units)
SOAD4011 Mental Health (4.5 units)
SOAD4012 Advanced Social Work Theories (4.5 units)
SOAD4014 Violence and Abuse (4.5 units)
Plus 9 units of option topics
SOAD4007 Field Education 2 (13.5 units)
SOAD4013 Sustainable Social Work (4.5 units)
AGES3001 Contemporary Issues in Ageing Societies (4.5 units)
HLPE3540 Drugs, Politics and Public Health (4.5 units)
HLTH2101 Critical Social Analysis of Health (4.5 units)
INDG2001 Black Poetics: Indigenous Literary Studies (4.5 units)
INDG3001 Colonial Intimacies and the Economy: Mathematics of Genocide (4.5 units)
INTR3101 Global Inequality (4.5 units)
POLI2011 Australian Public Policy: Applications, Issues and Dilemmas (4.5 units)
POLI2020 Australian Indigenous Politics (4.5 units)
POLI3069 The Politics of the Australian Welfare State (4.5 units)
WMST2016 Indigenous Women's Voices: Race, Gender and Colonialism (4.5 units)
Admission to an honours program may be offered to a student who meets certain academic criteria and subject to the college being able to provide appropriate resources and staff to supervise the program of study. Refer to Bachelor of Social Work (Honours).
Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.
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